Practical Magic: Book vs. Movie
Griffin Dunne's 1998 film Practical Magic adapts Alice Hoffman's book. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman play Sally and Gillian Owens, sisters whose family history of witchcraft complicates their efforts to build lives of their own.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Alice Hoffman
- Year
- 1995
- Pages
- 286Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 9 hr 12 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Christina Moore
- Series
- Practical Magic, book 1
Raised by aunts whose love spells draw secret visitors, Sally and Gillian Owens grow up determined to escape their family's reputation for witchcraft. Their separate adult lives bring neither sister the freedom she expects, and Gillian's arrival at Sally's home carries a dangerous problem with it. Sally's daughters become part of a household where ordinary family tensions coexist with magic that refuses to stay hidden.
- Director
- Griffin Dunne
- Writer
- Robin Swicord, Akiva Goldsman, Adam Brooks
- Year
- 1998
- Runtime
- 1 hr 40 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest, Stockard Channing
- Genre
- comedy drama, drama, fantasy, romantic comedy
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Sally and Gillian Owens grow up with witchcraft as part of family life and a curse hanging over the men they love. As adults, Sally tries to raise her daughters quietly while Gillian returns needing help with a dangerous boyfriend. The sisters' attempt to handle him with magic creates a problem that cannot stay hidden from the town or the police.
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